Neocryphus Nunberg 1956
Creators
- 1. School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611,
- 2. Department of Forest Protection Service, Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Strnady, Jíloviště, Praha 5, Zbraslav CZ- 15600, Czechia,
- 3. Texas Natural History Collections, Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712,
- 4. Department of Forest Protection, Wood Science and Game Management, Saint-Petersburg State Forest Technical University named after S. M. Kirov, Institutskii per., 5, 194021 Saint-Petersburg, Russia,
- 5. Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824,
- 6. Research Institute of Forest Insect Diversity, Namyangju 12113, South Korea,
- 7. University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, P. O. 7800, 5020 Bergen, and
Description
Neocryphus Nunberg, 1956a: 139
(Fig. 34)
Type of genus
Neocryphus argentinensis Nunberg, 1956.
Diagnosis
This genus can be diagnosed by the combination of a broadly emarginated eye, antennae with a second funicle segment smaller than the first, and a large antennal club.
Female
Eye long and broadly emarginated. Frons with an arc-shaped transverse carina at upper level of eyes, lined with scale-like setae. Cuticle above and behind eye striate. Antennae with four funicle segments. Antennal club large, with three slightly procurved sutures. Pronotum with two marginal asperities, and pronotal asperities in approximately concentric rows. Pronotum and hypomeron covered in extensive scale-like and bifurcating setae. Elytra with extensive scale-like setae. Declivity with deeply impressed striae and raised interstriae.
Male
Presumably similar to female.
Distribution
South America.
Remarks
Monotypic. This genus is transferred to Corthylini based on the eye shape and the bisulcate declivity. This genus is dubiously distinct from Acorthylus and Stegomerus based on antennal characters. No material was available for dissection or molecular analyses, so there is insufficient evidence to warrant taxonomic changes. Distinguished from Acorthylus based on the second funicle segment, which is a similar size to the third.
The observed specimen has a unique morphology of the protibiae; the mucro extends approximately a third of the length of the rest of the protibia, and appears to widen at its tip. This structure has not been described from Cryphalini or any Scolytinae. It is potentially a sexually dimorphic character, although only one individual of an unknown sex was studied.
There is a remarkable similarity between this genus and some members of Ernoporus, which have very similar sculpturing on the pronotum and elytra, and very similar vestiture. The two genera can be distinguished by the eye shape and the antennal club.
Type material examined
None.
Included species
Neocryphus argentinensis Nunberg, 1956a: 141.
= Phacrylus cristatus Schedl, 1979a: 61 (syn: Wood, 2007).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Neocryphus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Nunberg
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neocryphus Nunberg, 1956 sec. Johnson, Hulcr, Knížek, Atkinson, Mandelshtam, Smith, Cognato, Park, Li & Jordal, 2020
References
- Nunberg, M. 1956 a. Nowe neotropikalne Scolytidae (Coleoptera) [New neotropical Scolytidae]. Ann. Zool. 16: 135 - 146, pls. 19 - 20.
- Schedl, K. E. 1979 a. Fauna Argentinensis, IX. 331. Contribution to the morphology and taxonomy of the Scolytoidea. Acta Zool. Lilloana. 33: 57 - 62.
- Wood, S. L. 2007. Bark and ambrosia beetles of South America (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Brigham Young University, M. L. Bean Life Science Museum, Provo, UT, USA. 900 pp.